We have them around us too...
Two weeks ago my senior aunt lost both her little dogs to Coyotes. She had her carbon monoxide detector go off in the middle of the night. The dogs were barking and her husband has a prosthetic leg so she was freaked out and wanted to get everyone out. She put the dogs out (it was 3 am and her yard isn't fenced) and went to help her husband get out of bed. She heard her dogs bark and by the time she got her shoes on and stuff, they were gone......one of the bodies was found in the field behind her but not the other...so very very sad..I have been warned not to walk Wallee around the park here after dark as there are some down in the ravine so I NEVER go near there after the sun goes down. I would just die if anything ever happened to my little boy.